BOOTED-RACKET TAIL | COLIBRÍ RAQUETA

The Booted Racket-tail is a beautiful hummingbird. Males have a metallic green plumage, black wings, a short blackish bill, and a unique tail. The tail is long and green tipped with dark bluish rackets. The tail is longer than the bird itself. Females are white below with green speckles and a white-tipped tail lacking the characteristic rackets of males. Both sexes show puffy white leg feathers. This very small hummingbird that favors humid woodland edges in mid-elevations in the Andes. Smaller that Aglaiocercus that have the same tail pattern.